Research Reports

• CIO Report: 2007

  Sierra Energy Group, a division of Energy Central - February 2007
  The result of in-depth surveys and interviews with utility CIOs, the report is a real-world overview that (1) increases your understanding of your marketplace and the important changes that have occurred over the past year; (2) gives you the information you need to align your product and business development efforts to marketplace needs; (3) for vendors, allows you to position your company - your advertising, marketing and sales messages - far more effectively against your competition; and (4) for utilities, provides a high-level perspective on key business and technology issues. These benefits are all acutely more pertinent with today’s movement towards intelligent enterprises.

• IT Performance Management Report 2006

  Sierra Energy Group, a division of Energy Central - December 2006
  The IT Performance Management Report covers this vital discipline that utilities want in the current economic climate: improved efficiency and demonstrable ROI from tightly managed Information Technology.

• NERC Cyber Security 2006; an Overview Toward Implementation

  United Telecom Council - August 2006
  This essential study addresses the big question facing utilities – where to begin in complying with new Cyber Security standards (CIP-002-1 to 009-1), which will impact all utilities to some extent. Additional importance became evident when NERC was certified as the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) on July 20, 2006.

• CIO Report: 2006

  Sierra Energy Group, a division of Energy Central - February 2006
  The result of in-depth surveys and interviews with utility CIOs, the report is a real-world overview that (1) increases your understanding of your marketplace and the important changes that have occurred over the past year; (2) gives you the information you need to align your product and business development efforts to marketplace needs; (3) for vendors, allows you to position your company - your advertising, marketing and sales messages - far more effectively against your competition; and (4) for utilities, provides a high-level perspective key business and technology issues.

• The Utility Enterprise Solutions Report

  Energy Central - December 2005
  One of the hottest topics in utilities is enterprise solutions - Enterprise Resource Planning and Asset Management, GIS, Work Management Systems, Business Intelligence and Outage Management. The potential market is enormous with over $2 billion in expenditures planned over the next three years. Once again, Warren Causey has made a thorough investigation of this complex market, surveying hundreds of utilities of all sizes. The result: this new report; an insightful, comprehensive analysis of the enterprise solutions market.

• CIO Report: The Path Ahead

  Warren B. Causey, a division of Energy Central - May 2005
  The product of in-depth interviews and surveys with utility CIOs and CTOs, The Path Ahead gives you unprecedented insight into the future of IT in utilities and what it means to you, your company, and your job.

• IT Performance Management Report

  Warren B. Causey, a division of Energy Central - November 2004
  The IT Performance Management Report is the first to cover this vital discipline that utilities want in the current economic climate: improved efficiency and demonstrable ROI from tightly managed Information Technology.

• Utility ERP/EAM Report

  Warren B. Causey, a division of Energy Central - January 2003
  The 166-page Warren B. Causey, Ltd. Utility ERP/EAM Report is the largest, most comprehensive and current study on the subject now available. The report includes an all-new survey of 100 of the top 500 utilities in the U.S. and Canada.